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AKA ‘Handsome’

Jonathan: Handsome is as Handsome does, and he’s really done quite well, with 18 lambs born this spring from his 11 ewes (thanks to dreadful weather, three didn’t survive more than a few days). Officially he’s An Garradh Mor – Acarsaid, we just call him Handsome, and his 11 ewes clearly think he is just that! But we’ve got another good ram showing promise, so we’d decided some months ago to offer him for sale, and today was delivery day! All went well until he was let out of the trailer into a temporary enclosure in the garden ground of the new owner’s house, in Eochdar at the very north end of South Uist. Handsome hadn’t much experience of that particular kind of electric fence, so had no fear of it, and simply stepped straight through between the lines! His excuse: the garden needed a bit of weeding, and here he is tucking into some very juicy docks!